Blog Giveaway

Here is the link to the recent blog giveaway I entered.

4th of July Star--Crystal

Update: I have finally finshed this craft. I cut out some stars with my Cricut and added star buttons to the middle star and around the ribbons. Pic coming soon. I will also be entering it into the fair this week. Keep your fingers crossed.

Guess what? I won a blue ribbon at the fair. It did help that I was the only one in the category, but I did win.

Here is the door decoration I made for 4th of July. It's made out of wire and ribbon.

Here is my inspiration @ Oopsey Daisy.

My daughter took this one.

I used pinking shears to cut the ribbon for a decorative edge and less freying.
I just tied the ribbon onto the wire after bending the wire into a star shape.

It's almost done. I need to glue on some star buttons when I get some glue at the store.

Cute huh!

Here it is hanging on my door.

Linking here:

Duck Tape Wallet--Crystal

Here is the duck tape wallet my daughter made together for Father's Day.

I will update the tutorial for it later. I am a little busy and this blog is being kind of slow today.

Father's Day Card--Crystal

Here is the Father's Day Card I made for my husband this year.

Cut your card paper: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

Fold in half:

Cut your contrast paper to: 3x5

Glue to the top of the card:

I used letters from a cardstock that had pop out letters (you could also use some chipboard or make your own letters using a cricut or diecut machine). Spell "Dad". Ink the sides with stamp ink. Glue to the top of card:

Grab your crop-a-dile and make holes for eyelets:

Stamp "i love u" on the top:

Another Blog

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They are also having a giveaway for a Chilli's Gift Card.

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This blog has some very cute stuff. Check it out.

Card Project--Crystal

I used my Cricut to do my first card project. I made a Thank You card. It was actually pretty easy to make. I used my Cricut Cartiridge Don Jaun to cut out the word Thanks at 2" in pink and the shadow of Thanks at 2" in green. I then cut the ribbon at 3" in yellow. I cut the blue paper at 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 and rounded the corners. I cut the yellow paper at 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 and rounded the corners. I cut 3 green strips 6 1/2 x 1 1/2 and one green strip 3 1/2 x 1/4. I then stamped black butterflies onto the blue square and black flowers onto the yellow square. On the small green strips use a black marker to make dash marks along the whole strip.

I layered the piece: Yellow square, longer green strip on the bottom of the yellow square, blue square, the shorter green strips on the top left corner of the blue square, green thanks on the bottom of the blue, pink thanks on top of the green, and the yellow ribbon on top.

I then stamped two black butterflies onto pink paper and cut them out. I cupped them to have the wings stand out. I glued two of the wings together of the butterflies and placed them on the ends of the green strips. I attached each of them with a pink brad. I then glued down some star confetti at the bottom of the the card, underneath the thanks.

As I was looking at it just now, I realized I forgot to chalk the edge of the blue and yellow squares with the black ink. I would suggest it for next time.

Another blog

Check out this blog's giveaway. The blog is called Craftaholics Anonymous. It's a pretty cool blog with some fun stuff and tutorials. She also sales some of her stuff on her etsy shop. I really love the zipper items she makes. It's pretty cool. My favorite is the black zipper bracelt and zipper ruffle headband.

Easter Gift--Crystal

Can you guess what I got for Easter this year? I finally got a Cricut. YEAH!! I've been wanting one forever. Adam and Kenna got me one for Easter. I have already used it. I made an Easter card for one of Kenna's grandparents. Next I'll be making some cards for other grandparents too. I'm so excited. I can't wait to use it all the time. I'll have to take some pictures of my projects for my blog.

Party Weekend--Crystal

This weekend I had two birthday parties to make cakes for.

First was for my nephew. I did a train cake. The cake was chocolate with buttercreme icing.

The second one was for my mother in law's 5oth suprise birthday. I did a yellow cake with chocolate frosting, fondant daisies and leave, and chocolate dipped strawberries.

They turned out great.